And actually, by the way, that is why I wrote that piece in May, "Editing While Female," for exactly that reason, Jill … I had actually been thinking about doing something like that before this happened to you, and then that happened and we had been in France visiting with our friend, Natalie Nougayrède, who was the editor of Le Monde and also left her job the same day.

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And I'm going, but I'm-and maybe you can think of it-I'm trying to think of the perfect either mordant joke or observation to make about how strange it is that, when I first decided to go to this conference, that I was invited by Natalie.
You knew her probably better than I did, I think, but she so badly wanted me to come to this, and we ended up being fired on the same day.

Le Monde's chief editor, Natalie Nougayrede, said the paper has not come under pressure from French authorities to turn over documents or to withhold information.
Still, she said the paper was keeping the documents "in a safe place" that she would not describe.

"Even if there were demands and pressure, I would be absolutely adamant that we would just continue our work," Nougayrede said.